Zion Lutheran Church

ZION NOTES…

Week of May 28

MARK YOUR CALENDARS… Zion’s 2023 Vacation Bible School will take place May 30-June 2, 9-11:30am.  “TWIST & TURNS: Following Jesus Changes the Game” will be a week of fun and meaningful activities for our children.  Of course, volunteers will be needed.  Please let Mark know if you are will and able to serve in this important ministry.

JOIN US FOR BIBLE STUDY:

Sundays, 10:30-11:15am… We continue our video series on Paul’s letter to the ROMANS;

Wednesdays, 9:00am… We are working our way through Hebrews.  This challenging but exceedingly important New Testament letter elevates are understanding of Jesus. On a short break…WILL RESUME ON JUNE 14.

Wednesdays, 6:30pm… We continue with Desserts & Discipleship—“Following Jesus.”  These provide great opportunities to connect with the “Living Word” (Jesus) through the written words of the Scriptures.

PLEASE PRAY for these members and friends of Zion: Lou, Fred, Ray, John, Scott, Verna, Cheryl, James, and ____________. 

OUR YOUTH CONTINUE TO MEET ON THURSDAY EVENINGS AT 7:00pm for devotions, followed by fun & games and snacks.  We wrap at 8:30pm.

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T H I S    W E E K    A T    Z I O N

Sunday, May 28     Worship                       9:00 a.m. 

                               Pancake Breakfast     10:15 a.m.

                               Education Hour          10:30 a.m.

Tuesday-Friday      Vacation Bible School  9:00 a.m.

Thursday, June 1    Youth                           7:00 p.m.                         

                                A.A.                             7:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 4      Worship                        9:00 a.m. 

                               Pancake Breakfast      10:15 a.m. 

                               Education Hour           10:30 a.m.

READINGS FOR PENTECOST SUNDAY

First Reading: Acts 2:1-21

1When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappado-cia, Pontus and Asia, 10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” 12All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”  14But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: 17‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. 18Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy. 19And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist. 20The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day. 21Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

Epistle Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

3Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says “Let Jesus be cursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except by the Holy Spirit. 4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; 6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in every-one. 7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses. 12For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Gospel Reading:  John 20:19-23

19When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 21Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” 22When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”